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Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Age: 82 †
Born: 1749
Born: August 22
Died: 1832
Died: March 22
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What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
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Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved.
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I wish the stage were as narrow as the wire of a tighrope dancer so that no incompetent would dare step upon it.
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When a wife has a good husband, it is easily seen on her face.
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When scholars study a thing, they strive to kill it first, if it's alive then they have the parts and the'be lost the whole, for the link that's missing was the living soul.
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Is not the core of nature in the heart of man?
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When the healthy nature of man acts as a whole, when he feels himself to be in the world as in a great, beautiful, noble, and valued whole, when harmonious ease affords him a pure and free delight, then the universe, if it could experience itself, would exult, as having attained its goal, and admire the climax of its own becoming and essence.
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A noble soul alone can noble souls attract And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
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Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
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Nature has neither kernel Nor shell
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All understanding begins in wonder!
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There is not a single outward mark of courtesy that does not have a deep moral basis.
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I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated.
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Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does.
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To like things like, whatever one may ail There is certain help.
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Whoever strikes at marriage either by word or act undermines the foundation of all moral society.
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In comradeship is danger countered best.
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Everything in the world may be endured, except only a succession of prosperous days. [Ger., Alles in der Welt lasst sich ertragen, Nur nicht eine Reihe von schonen Tagen.]
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